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16 April 2009 The FCT Chairman of the Izalatul
Bid'a WaIkamatu Sunna (IBWIS), Ustaz Nasiruddeen
Hussaini Bayero has advised President Umaru Musa
Yar'adua to make use of the opportunity Allah has
offered him by achieving success in at least one out
of his administration's seven-point agenda.
Ustaz Nasiruddeen also advised the President to
resist attempts by those urging him to seek for second
term in office, noting that it is not how many years a
leader stays in office that matters.
The Muslim cleric gave the advice while addressing
Muslim faithful at a public lecture, organized by the
FCT branch of the Islamic group at Pasali, in Kuje
Area Council.
The IBWIS Chairman said Chief Olusegun Obasanjo's
eight years presidency could not achieve half of what
General Murtala Mohammed six month leadership achieved
for the country.
"President Umaru Yar'Adua will do well to try and
make a great success of, at least, one out of the
seven-point agenda before he is four years in office,"
he said, saying, it would be impossible for a leader
to achieve any tangible thing in two terms of eight
years what he could not achieve in a term of four
years.
"Every good Muslim should aspire to make better use
of any opportunity Allah makes available to him. This
presidency is a good opportunity for Umaru Musa
Yar'adua and he should not allow it to slip off
without making use of it."
Ustaz Nasiruddeen said there would be many of
Yar'adua's associates who would probably be telling
him that a second term in office will offer him
opportunity to perform well but that such people are
interested only in using the president to remain
relevant in the corridors of power.
He said the fear of Allah begins when a Muslim
avoids things forbidden by Allah and sticks to those
He (Allah) enjoins him to do.
According to him, the rampant acts of disobedience
to Allah's commands are responsible for a lot of
misfortunes and distress, such as HIV/AIDS, that
bedevils the world today.
Also speaking at the occasion, the Chairman of the
Kuje branch of the Izala group and chief Imam of the
staff quarters' Jum'at mosque, Ustaz Zakariyya
Muhammad said the celebration of the birthday of
Prophet Muhammad had no basis in Islam.
He said the concept of celebration of birthdays was
purely Christian which some later-day Muslim scholars
borrowed and implanted in Islam.
"Celebration of Maulid, he emphasized, neither has
foundation in the Holy Qur'an nor in the Hadith or
Sunnah (Prophet Muhammad's sayings and actions). It is
not supported by any book of Fiqhi," he emphasised. |
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